Acts 16 Nkjv (2024)

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What is the main point of Acts 16? ›

THEME: Joy in all Things: Acts 16 displays the beauty of Christian joy, that joy is not tied only to triumph in the faith but also defeat. Acts chapter 16 starts off with Paul and Silas embarking on Paul's second missionary journey. The journey begins with them finding Timothy and training him up in the Gospel.

Paul's faith and trust in God allowed him to change his plans and go where God wanted him to be. He did not sulk, question why, or delay getting to work on the plan that God revealed to him. Instead, he accepted God's plan and continued working hard for the Lord. That is the example that we are to follow.

It records the start of the second missionary journey of Paul, together with Silas and Timothy. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke.

The "spirit of divination" that possesses the girl is related to the myth of Pythian: a serpent or dragon that guarded the oracle at Delphi and had been slain by Apollo.

Help me discern your timing. Guide me to the places where I can be most useful to you at the time that is most advantageous to grow your kingdom, to bless your children, and to reach the lost. O Holy Spirit, please guide my life's direction and prevent me from mistakes of timing, sensitivity, and place.

God's Spirit precedes us; God is omnipresent. God looks upon and hears all people; his attention, power, and compassion are not limited to those who call themselves Israelites or Christians. God's Spirit falls upon, fills, moves human beings as and when God desires.

CSB When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison standing open, he drew his sword and was going to kill himself, since he thought the prisoners had escaped. NLT The jailer woke up to see the prison doors wide open. He assumed the prisoners had escaped, so he drew his sword to kill himself.

CSB Paul wanted Timothy to go with him; so he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, since they all knew that his father was a Greek. NLT so Paul wanted him to join them on their journey.

Acts 16:6–10 records Paul, Silas, and Timothy striking out into new territory. They have visited the churches Paul and Barnabas planted in Galatia and given them the letter from the church in Jerusalem affirming Gentiles do not need to convert to Judaism to follow Jesus. Now they head farther west.

But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God: Though they were arrested, beaten, and imprisoned for doing good, Paul and Silas were filled with joy, and sang praises to God.

What is the spirit of Jesus in Acts 16? ›

'The spirit of Jesus' (τὸ πνεῦμα Ἰησοῦ) is an uncommon phrase found only in Acts 16.7. Most scholars presume it to be a variant description of the Holy Spirit without any special significance. Garnering insight from ethnographic studies on spirit possession, this article seeks to overturn this presumption.

Acts, chapter 16 tells Lydia's story. Following her baptism, she opened her household to Paul, his co-workers, and the new Christian congregation. The research literature supports the idea that Lydia acted as a benefactress of the church in line with the Roman model of patronage.

After Paul casts the “spirit of python” out of her, we are told that she loses this ability. However, beyond that—and her owners' anger over this loss—we don't know what happens to her. Byron points out that her owners may have begun exploiting her in another way.

Exodus 22:18 – You shall not tolerate a sorceress. Leviticus 19:26 – You shall not eat anything with its blood. You shall not practice divination or soothsaying. Leviticus 20:27 – A man or a woman who has a ghost or a familiar spirit shall be put to death; they shall be pelted with stones—and the bloodguilt is theirs.

Mary Magdalene was a tormented soul, tormented by the possession of seven demons that had taken up residency in her life. And then she met Jesus Christ, and she was set free. Hallelujah. She was singing a hallelujah because she had been set free.

Paul and Silas's example teaches us that we can sing God's praises, even in the midst of pain and suffering. Their act of worship resulted in supernatural interventions, showcasing the power of what happens when we praise God in impossible situations.

The "we" passages—a number of verses in Acts are written in the first person plural ("we") apparently indicating that the writer is participating in the events he is describing—were first interpreted by Irenaeus as evidence that the writer was a personal eyewitness of these events, and a companion of Paul on his ...

The focus of this scene is the power of Jesus over all the spirits of the world, but we might well ask whether and how there could be a more complete freedom for this woman. The story simply leaves her behind, nameless, disturbing, and perhaps a reminder of the continuing need of liberation for so many.

Acts 16:16–24 shows that religiously confused Gentiles can hinder Paul's ministry as much as Jews. Paul, Silas, Timothy, and Luke are in Philippi on the border of Macedonia and Greece. When Paul expels a demonic spirit from a slave girl, her owners accuse Paul and Silas of illegally promoting a foreign god.